75+ Things To Add To Playdough To Make It More Fun

Other than reading the one activity that we do daily here at our house is playdough. We have a playdough bucket in our playroom and a drawer in the kitchen filled with playdough and all sorts of fun add ons. Here are our favorite things to add to playdough. You don’t need fancy activities you just need to put out playdough and a few fun add-ons and let creativity blossom.

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Curious….how do you get the play doh out of some of the objects you suggest adding to the play doh….legos, shells,wooden beads, combs, etc. I have 18 students ages 4-5 and I don’t have time to clean the play doh out of the crevices, etc. Just giving them scissors–which I do reluctantly–creates a big mess of tidbits on the floor. Please don’t see my questions as criticisms….quite the contrary as I use your ideas very often. (I teach English in northern Thailand.)

That is a GREAT question. Most comes out right away if you use a larger ball of playdough as a stamp. If that doesn’t work then I let it dry and then chip it off once it’s completely dry. The third step if neither of those work is to soak it in warm water overnight. It will come right off.